Bobby Deol in Anurag Kashyap’s film Bandar. Actor Bobby Deol bounced back from his career’s lowest phase in the late 2010s when he took a chance with Prakash Jha’s 2020 MXPlayer crime show Aashram. Playing a corrupt spiritual guru wasn’t even remotely on his mind in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when he ruled the roost as an A-list superstar. In his 2.0 era, Bobby has consolidated his position as the go-to villain in projects like Animal (2023), The Ba***ds of Bollywood (2025), and the upcoming films, Alpha and Jana Nayagan. But when Anurag Kashyap reached out to him with the crime thriller Bandar, Bobby thought the film could amount to taking his adventurous streak too far. He was initially hesitant to take up the protagonist’s role of a has-been television star accused of rape by his ex-girlfriend. “Bobby was initially slightly hesitant about whether he would be able to pull off the Bandar role,” a source close to the development tells SCREEN. So, he went back to his family and took their advice.…